Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Meeting Minutes - February 9, 2012

Woolwich Central School PTA Minutes

February 9, 2012

Minutes from meeting held December 8, 2011 to be approved at next meeting.

OLD BUSINESS

Boxtops: Jennifer

· Submission sent in for March 1st deadline; 6170 ($6,170)

· Over 6300 received during snowball fight drive

· Concerns from a very limited few teachers/parents that snowball fight was ‘negative’; what can we do to revamp for next year? Suggestion by Karen to make drive ice fishing related.

Shop Til U Drop:

· Stefanie to check account for exact total of funds raised.

Terracycle: Kristen

· Ready to submit 2070

· Only issue is with full containers and straws; Karen to email teachers about draining pouches and removing straws.

· Kristen to collect buckets, clean, and update labels over February vacation.

Ink Recycling: Tracy

· Currently have $30 on Staples account.

· We can only submit 10 per month to Staples

· Tracy to check if we can set up multiple accounts and then combine rewards from multiple accounts to make one purchase.

NEW BUSINESS

New Fundraising Ideas: Karen

· Value Cards

Ø $10 each; we make $6 of that

Ø Cards list all participating vendors and are good for one year

Ø Minimum order is only 25; we could easily handle if they don’t have a good response; no real negative for us

Ø Everyone to email Karen their top 3-5 choices for local businesses that they want listed on the card. Karen will then email the company our wish list.

· Bath Savings Friends & Neighbors Program

Ø We would receive $25 for each new account that they open that chooses us from a list of participating non-profits.

Ø VOTE: all in favor to sign up

More Fundraising: Karen

· Flower Fundraising: Karen to look into Flower Power

Ø Will need to start right away in March; discuss more at next meeting

Ø Maybe tie into Mother’s Day

· Car Decals; check with Sherri so we don’t use the same company that WJA used because the quality was poor.

· Water Bottles/T-Shirts; hold off til next year and kick off with new school

· Cabin Fever Dance: March 2nd

Ø Tracy to organize; Karen will ask for help via email/website

Ø Will raffle class donated baskets

Ø Should we include another iPod raffle?

· Crop-n-Shop: possibly hold another May 12 or 19

· Tyson A+: Karen to research and put into newsletter.

· Lia Sophia: local rep Milissa offered us fundraising opportunities

Ø Not something we can do at this time, but keep her in mind for next Crop-n-Shop

Volunteer Site:

· Karen to update with times and dates for volunteers needed for Bookfair & Dance.

Book Swap: Michelle , Deb, Alaine

· Will begin requesting book donations via the school newsletter starting next Friday.

· This year provide information to local daycares that they can come after the bookswap ends (@ 3pm) to fill a bag for $10 or $20.

· Need to select date; 8th graders leave for DC on June 3rd.

· Do we want to use Scholastic dollars to purchase books for older kids since we are usually lacking donations for that age group?

Christmas Shopping for Kids:

· We will be doing this in December; Bath PTA has hosted this type of event for many years.

· We will need to put information in the newsletter; requesting items (etc)

· Questions? How do we sort through items? Storage? Will address these questions at a later date.

Meeting adjourned 6:42 p.m.

Next Meeting: March 8, 2012

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